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So, as you all probably have figured out. I have decided this story will be a Hikaru x OC story! I feel like he needs a little more love ^_^

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Chapter 5

Annoyance

"Hikaru, get out of my way," I said with a glare as I tried to make my way out of the door of the classroom in order to go home. We weren't going to be having any clients that day because Haruhi needed to practice dancing. I was going to spend my evening with my brother. Yet, the twins blocked my way. I knew it was Hikaru's doing though. Most of the time he was the instigator.

He smirked at me, "How about you invite us over to your house seeing as we have nothing to do." He turned towards his brother, "Isn't that a great idea, Kaoru?"

"Oh, yes. A great idea," Kaoru said with a look of agreement.

I frowned, "No." Hikaru snaked his arm around my shoulders and pulled me close to his body. I squirmed to get away because his close proximity was making me uncomfortable. Unfortunately for me, Hikaru was not going to let me go.

"Come on, Adrian. It'll be fun," he whispered in my ear.

My body tensed as his breath ticked me. I could feel my cheeks heat up. My elbow collided with his abdomen, earning a grunt from him, as I stepped away from him to turn around and glare at him, "Screw off, Hikaru. I don't want to play your little games." I looked away and said under my breath, "I'm starting to think being ignored was better." I sighed as I looked at Kaoru who was still blocking my way. He stepped to the side, unsure of what to do. I walked forward a few steps until I looked over my shoulder to look at the twins, "Whenever you want to build an actual friendship with me let me know. But I am not going to be a toy for the two of you to play with when you are bored." They both looked at me with unreadable expressions on their faces. I turned my head back forward to start heading outside where a limo was waiting for me. Once again, I took a few steps forward only to stop. "Aiden."

His grinning face looked at me as he rushed to engulf me in a bear hug, "I missed you!"

"Would you let me go? Jeez, you saw me this morning," I said to him as I tried to push him off. I regretted telling him which class I was in.

"Never. I am never letting you go," he said as he pulled me closer.

"Damnit, Adr- Aiden! Get off me!" This was the time I was so happy that everyone had gone away. I did my best to get him off but he was persistent.

"Who are your friends?" he suddenly said, losing his hold. I took the opportunity to get out of his grasp. "I think I remember seeing them in that Host Club thing."

I rolled my eyes, "How observant of you."

He turned to me with a pout, "I hate that you speak fluent sarcasm."

I sighed as I pointed towards the twins, "That's Hikaru and that's Kaoru."

He looked between them, "Hey! Nice to meet you!" He turned to me and not so subtly whispered, "How do you tell them apart? They literally look exactly the same."

I turned to him with a furrowed brow. I was completely worried about him. He was a twin himself. How could he not spot the subtle differences? Or maybe I had started to get to know them so well that it became second nature to me. "I'm losing hope for you," I said to him with a deadpan expression as I crossed my arms over my chest.

He blinked, "Hey! It's not my fault they are identical to the very last strain of hair!" He looked at them with an uneasy smile, "I mean, no offense."

I facepalmed, "You're just making this whole thing worse." I looked at the twins, "Sorry about him. He just has a few screws loose."

"Hey! That hurts, Adrian!" I rolled my eyes at him.

"You two are really friends?" Hikaru asked us with a look of confusion.

"Your personalities don't exactly match," Kaoru added just as baffled.

"Polar opposites," they said in unison.

Adrian started to laugh. All three of us turned our gaze to him with a look of confusion. "I think you broke him," I said to them.

"N-no," Adrian let out in between his laughter, "I just… they are so right… It's funny…"

"I really don't understand how that's funny," all three of us said at the same time. We all looked at each other in surprise. I had not planned to be part of their 'twin' thing.

Adrian slapped the back of my back, causing me to stagger forward and turn to glare at him. He smiled at me, "It's funny because even though our personalities contradict each other we complete each other. You complete me."

I looked at him with a look of disgust, "Dude, do you even hear yourself right now?"

He blinked at me with a tilt of his head, "What? I don't get it. What's so wrong with what I said?"

"Seriously?" I looked at him as if he had grown two heads, "How are you the older tw- Older one?" I hoped that the twins hadn't heard my screw up.

"Isn't that adorable, Kaoru?" Hikaru stated. I turned my gaze to him as he smirked at us.

"Yes. They make a nice couple," Kaoru added with his own version of the smirk.

I paled as I gagged, "Ew." I turned to look at my brother who had his mouth hanging down, his eyes wide like saucers.

"That… That is so wrong… So so wrong," he said. "So so wrong. No no." His hands came to his ears as he rubbed on them as if he were trying to erase what he had heard.

"There is nothing wrong with falling for your best friend," Kaoru said to him.

"Yeah. It's not that big of a deal," Hikaru agreed.

It is when you are related.

Adrian turned toward me with a look of horror, "I'm so sorry. I didn't realize what it sounded like."

I blinked at him, "I still hate you. You're always making things more complicated and weird." Like making me pretend to be him in a school full of rich kids. I had no ducking clue how to deal with that.

"I don't mean to…" he said looking down. Suddenly, the twins had my brother around the shoulders.

"How about you invite us over to your house?" Hikaru questioned him.

"Your friend wouldn't," Kaoru finished.

Adrian looked at me with confusion, "Why wouldn't you invite your friends over?"

I looked at him with an 'are-you-serious?' look written on my face. The twins had a look of triumph as my brother told them they could come over but today wasn't a good day. That he would be happy to have them over two weekends from now. They both seemed pleased with that. Meanwhile, I never hated my brother more. Not really but I didn't know how much more annoyance I could take. I might explode by the end of this week.

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I had never wanted to run and hide in my bed more than this evening. I felt like the more I pretended to be my brother the more crazy situations I found myself in. Was this what it was like to be him? How could he even stand it for a second? My head was pounding.

"Dance with me!" one of the girls said.

"No. Me next!" another stated.

"I was here first!" a third exclaimed.

This had been my evening and I wanted so desperately for someone to come save me from this. I literally was the rope in a tug-a-war game. I was putting all my effort for not losing my shit that I couldn't tell them to wait their turn or what not.

Deep breaths. Keep Calming. I kept repeating these words inside of my head, believing they would keep me from going insane.

"Ladies," I heard a voice cut in. I felt a sudden pressure on my shoulder as I was being pulled backward. "No one will be able to dance with him if you take all night fighting over it," I turned my head to look at a smiling Hikaru as he looked at the mob of girls.

"Maybe you should all leave him alone for a little bit," Kaoru added as he stood on my other side with a similar smile.

The girls looked disappointed but agreed after waving off. I was suddenly alone with the twins. I could believe I would ever say this but… Thank effing God. I let out a sigh of relief, doing my best from not falling on my knees. I was surprised that the twins had come to my rescue. But I realized it hadn't been the first time they had done so. The time the guy had come at me the other day the twins had intervened. However, I couldn't help feeling that this was different from the last time. Last time it was like it was something that was expected from them. This time it was like they had actually felt sorry for me and wanted to help me.

"Are you okay?" Hikaru asked me. I turned my head to look at him as he frowned at me. I almost swore he was looking at me with concern.

"You don't look very good," Kaoru informed me.

I weakly nodded, "It's just been a long night. I can't wait until it's over."

Hikaru snorted before crossing his arms, "You and me both. It was fun for a little bit but it got boring really fast." He let out a breath, "So boring."

"Huh?" I let out, "What about that plan thing you guys were going to do with Haruhi?"

"Our part's over," Kaoru replied. I turned to look at him, waiting for him to clarify. "The plan is in process at the moment. We just have to wait."

"Wait for what?" I blinked as we were suddenly ushered out of the glass doors to stand outside. "Oh," I let out as I watched a couple dancing underneath a spotlight. I took that as my cue to get out of there. It was the end of the night, right? I could leave now. I just couldn't stay there any longer. I just wanted to be home and in my bed. I was sure they wouldn't notice me slip away. Plus, it was the beginning of the weekend and I wanted a head start.

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"You have some nerve leaving like that," Hikaru informed me with a displeased expression as he stared at me. I had arrived at school on Monday after having the weekend to myself. I hadn't told anyone I was leaving the ball party thing. And now I was paying for it.

"Yeah. After we had gone through all that trouble helping you with those girls too," Kaoru added with his own displeased expression.

I groaned in my seat as I slammed my head on to the desk, "Stop lecturing me." I had enough of that with Adrian's parents when they had come to dinner last night. I hadn't slept a wink because of what they had said to me. They really believed I wasn't good enough for my own flesh and blood. I really did not want anyone else to tell me how much of a worthless person I was.

"Are you alright, Adrian?" Haruhi asked me as she made her way towards us, "Maybe you should leave him alone, guys."

"What? We didn't do anything," Hikaru said in shock.

"It was Adrian that left without telling any of us," Kaoru chipped in.

"I'm sure he had his reasons," Haruhi defended me. "But are you okay, Adrian?"

"..." I honestly didn't know how to answer her. I could lie to her and say that I was fine, which wouldn't raise more questions. Or I could tell her the truth: I hadn't been sleeping because my brother's parents hated my guts. I couldn't tell her the truth, "...Yeah. Peachy."

There were a couple of seconds of silence until she responded, "Well if you ever need someone to talk to I can listen." My stomach dropped at her words. It would feel so nice to be able to talk to someone about all of this. I felt so alone. But I couldn't. The risks were too high.

I took a deep breath as I lifted my head to look at the three of them. With the best straight face I could do, I said, "Thanks, Haruhi. That means a lot. But I'll be fine."

She smiled at me, "Sure. Anytime."

She moved to take her seat but the twins remained standing around my desk, "Can I help you?"

"You're lying," Kaoru deduced.

"You're terrible at it," Hikaru agreed with his brother.

I frowned, "Like either of you would know." Well, they were right. I was lying but if I was completely terrible at it they would have figured out that A) I am not my brother and B) I'm a girl. I guess I was good at some lies but not others.

Are they looking at me with hurt?

"Whatever. I guess we aren't friends after all," Hikaru brushed off as he made his way to an empty seat away from me, "Come on, Kaoru." His brother followed right behind him, leaving me to ponder what the hell I had done to make him angry this time. Hikaru was so hard to figure out. One minute we are good and the next he gets pissed at me.

I inwardly sighed, it isn't like I am good around people. I really need to work on it… But letting anyone in is… terrifying. Even if I had the option to tell someone my secret, would I?